Product Description: Over the last decade research exploring green infrastructure planning has burgeoned. Transferable green infrastructure messages between locations though are less well established and there remains a visible gap between the conceptual understanding of green infrastructure and its application in practice...read more

Product Description: In this volume Robert E. Grese gathers together writings on nature-based landscape design and conservation by some of the country's most significant practitioners, horticulturalists, botanists, and conservationists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries...read more

Product Description: Construction in the Landscape describes the impact of construction on the land and landscape where it takes place. Geographical coverage is necessarily global to reflect the great variation both in people's economic and social needs and in the shortage or abundance of natural resources...read more

Increasingly landscape planning requires an understanding of how the landscape functions. Marsh's book provides a unique integration of landscape architecture, forestry, ecology, and geography. This Fourth Edition incorporates the rapid expansions taking place in the field. It addresses several topics of concern in both public and private sectors such as flooding wetlands, species conservation, and groundwater. Readers will also discover how physical geography, planning, and landscape architecture relate to environmental problems and issues. * An overview of environmental topics as applied to development, land use, and environmental problems of the landscape * Focuses on landscape processes, systems, forms, and analysis * Places greater emphasis on urban environments and site-scale problems * Arms the reader with a collection of best management practices, which can be applied in the field * Presents updated case studies that examine planning and design problems

Landscape and visual impact assessment is concerned with assessing the effect of a proposed development on appearance and character of a landscape. Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment is a key component of the Environmental Impact Assessment process - (a legal requirement of all planning applications since 1988). This manual puts forward best practice guidelines on Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment developed by the two key professional bodies (IEA) and (LI) and with full support of the statutory county bodies (County Coucils, Scottish National Heritage, Countryside Council for Wales). * only guidelines available on LVIA in the UK. * full guidelines given on the LVIA process as well as how to present the data. * essential advice for decision- makers on how to review LVIA information. * guidelines presented in an attractive and easily accesible way (checklists, highly illustrated).